Statistical Mechanic wrote:Thanks Matthew, a friend just emailed me the news. Devastated. One of the greatest of the greats, I was fortunate to see him and The Fall at their prime.

Oh, no.

For me, it's like a special branch of the whole modern music ceases to exist. This is the most devastating death for me, maybe even from the time of John Lennon's death, but back then I was only 13 years old. I think The Fall were a category of their own and made what music was from the 80s onward.

Kleon_I XYZ Contagion wrote:This is the most devastating death for me, maybe even from the time of John Lennon's death, but back then I was only 13 years old. I think The Fall were a category of their own and made what music was from the 80s onward.

very well said, this one is basically impossible to take, Lennon and Cobain both actually hit me hard, this one even harder and I'm way past being a "fifty year old man" - I should no longer at my age be sentimental about these things

Kleon_I XYZ Contagion wrote:This is the most devastating death for me, maybe even from the time of John Lennon's death, but back then I was only 13 years old. I think The Fall were a category of their own and made what music was from the 80s onward.

very well said, this one is basically impossible to take, Lennon and Cobain both actually hit me hard, this one even harder and I'm way past being a "fifty year old man" - I should no longer at my age be sentimental about these things

Tom Petty hit me hard.

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

Sorry to hear it, I’ve only read The Plot Against America. If I get some time I may check into some other things he wrote.

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

Matthew Ellard wrote:Punk rockers also liked the original Devo. Devo also did a "Johnny B Good" song in 1978, except Johnny gets too enthusiastic when he picks up his guitar and drives head on into a semi-trailer.

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951

Today my wife and I walked along the Tiergarten to find a building that a friend of ours had designed. We wanted to take a photo of my wife in front of it and send it to him. As we made our way along the big leafy park, we saw across the street what looked like a city-block sized cemetery - only not quite. We walked over and found ourselves absorbed in walking through the rectangular stones set along undulating paths. We walked slowly. It hit me where we were: The Memorial to the Murdered European Jews.

I am not much for memorials and commemorations, to say the least, but that is one helluva thing. People kept coming over and walking through the stones, you could see them disappear between slabs or into valleys. Some visitors simply sat on the stones and gazed across the memorial. It was quiet and a bit melancholy. No wonder deniers despise Germans.

“I noticed this morning that a group of our Landsberg friends have been given their freedom this morning. These include...Schubert, Jost and Nosske. Schubert confessed to...supervising the execution of about 800 Jews...(referring to the order to clean up Simferopol)...Schubert managed to kill all the Jews (by Christmas 1941). Nosske was the one the other defendants called the biggest bloodhound....
Noel, Noel, what the hell.”
Benjamin Ferencz in a letter to Telford Taylor, December 1951